Bryce and Asha's Lattest soccer games

Saturday 9/20/2008 (Pictures from their last 2 games)

Olympians

Asha's team are the Olympians. These girls are just amazing. The play hard and don't give up. The are doing awesome in their games. So far, they have won 2 games and lost one. Go Olympians!!!

Asha Player #10

A wonderful team!
The girls with Coach Michelle
Asha ready to play!

Warming up before the game
Go Olympians!!!!
Olympians rock!!!
Triumphant Asha

SHARKS

Bryce's team are the Sharks. The are very energetic and fast. They are doing great in their games. So far they have won 2 and lost one. Keep it up Sharks!!!

Bryce Player # 3
Go Sharks!
Waving for the camera!
Ready to play!
Go Bryce Go!

Taking a well deserved break

Discussing their next play with Coach Hector
They are yelling: Go Sharks!!!
Triumphant Bryce!

Little Wonders at the Kern County Fair

These are some Photographs of life's beauty I encountered and captured at the Kern County Fair this year. Yet another reminder of Heavenly Father's great love for his children. Enjoy!

"Our Savior's love shines like the sun with perfect light"

Happy Birthday Mr Bryce

Friday, September 19th. 2008

We all have been super busy with school, soccer, and various other activities.
Finally I have a chance to post some of the funnest things we've been up to. One of those things is Bryce's birthday party which was a great success. His Birthday celebration took place this past Friday, September 19Th, the day of his birthday.
Seriously! he had a blast with all of his friends who joined him. I have never seen him more excited in his life. This has probably been his best birthday yet.
I put a lot of time and effort in preparing everything and it was all worth it after seeing Bryce and all of the happy little faces.
Stacey Bryan and I started our day Friday Morning and put our hands and creativity to work.
The decorations included skull center pieces with cool dry Ice special effects, Indiana Jones table cloths and party ware. For dinner, we had Spaghetti with meet sauce, Parmesan cheese and parsley. We also included a tossed salad and bread rolls with butter. Bryan made the Spaghetti dinner and it turned so delicious!!! Everyone liked it.
After Dinner, we gathered the kids for a treasure hunt which included 2 treasure chests filled with Indiana Jones surprise treasure pouches for each child. They had fun looking for those.
The treasure hunt was followed by the cutting of the cake which was also decorated with Indiana Jones. Chocolate gold coins surrounded the cake. the Kids loved the coins and the chocolate rocks on the cake.
After the Cake, Bryce opened his presents and thanked everyone for coming. At the end of the party, the kids had Popsicles and played a little more. It was a totally fun party and a great success.
Happy 5Th birthday Bryce!!! We love you ;)

Mr. Bryce Indi


Before the guests arrived
The cake

Skull center pieces
Bryce decided he wanted spaghetti for his birthday. He loves it!
The guests enjoying the party
Uncle Jeff posing for the camera

Group picture
Treasure hunt
Bryan passing out the treats

Cake time mmmmm....
Happy Birthday Bryce!

The Birthday Boy
Bryce wanted to eat the piece of cake with his name on it.

Tia Miriam and Bryce
Time to open presents!
Happy Bryce and a very exhausted Mom
One of Bryce's favorite presents!

Bryce has been asking about When he would be able to ride on a booster car seat like Asha's.

We kept telling him he would be able to ride on one when he is a big boy. Now that he's 5 we thought it was a good time to grant him his wish.

He is so excited to know he can ride one like Asha's and that he is a big boy now.

Congratulations big boy!

He thought it was so cool that the box read Big Kid! He's proud of that.

Two adorable boys enjoying some orange Popsicles. Too cute!

A lost tooth

Thursday, September 25th. 2008

Asha lost her first top front tooth just now!
She looks super cute as toothless princess!
She's definitely growing up.

Friday, Sep. 26th. 2008
Last night after Asha lost her tooth, She left it for the tooth fairy and this morning, She found $3.
She was so happy and thankful to the tooth fairy. She decided to use her money for a Macdonald's pancake breakfast in bed since she had to stay home sick today. She is sick and needs respiratoty treatments. Hopefully she'll feel better soon!

Mark your calendars!

Hi dear Friends and family!

Bryce will be turning 5! and you are all invited to come and celebrate.

I just finished making Bryce's Party invitation and Just in case you get yours a little late in the mail, I'm posting it so you can have the details.

We hope to see you all at the Party on September 19th!

Asha's FHE lesson

Asha gave the FHE lesson this week. This was her first FHE lesson ever prepared and given all by herself. On Sunday, she decided she wanted to do the lesson for our next FHE. Bryan and I were so proud and humbled by her desire. She came home that afternoon and buried herself in this task. She even prepared some visual aids made by her. We started the meeting by singing "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" at Bryce's request. When it was time for her lesson, we gathered in the living room and eagerly listened to her teachings. Her lesson was titled: "Heavenly father has created a beautiful world for us" I quickly grabbed my school audio recorder and was able to record her touching lesson. She started by showing us one of her drawings specially prepared by her for the lesson. (see pictures of her visual aids). She continued by saying that we are so blessed to have this wonderful and beautiful world which Heavenly father has made for us because he loves us so. She taught us that we need to take care of everything that is given to us. We all felt the spirit in our home that day. Thank you Asha for your humble and grateful spirit. We learned a great lesson.